Frisked for Arms

Frisked for Arms

Photograph

Frisked for Arms

Terror in Algeria


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/8 × 9 7/16 in. (15.6 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0188
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Algeria) 3/62 3) FRISKED FOR ARMS: both Moslems and Europeans \ are frequently stopped and searched by heavily armed French \ soldiers in Algiers. \ No credit - see Editor's note.
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